We’re back at it for another night of hockey action, kids!
Today is Friday and tonight’s game is at 9 PM, so this one might bleed into your late night Friday social plans. We’ve got you covered with two options of how to combine these activities:
- Option One: Gather up your bros and/or ladies and head to your local watering hole to watch the game. The game ends a little before midnight and BAM, the dance floor is just a few feet away.
- Option Two: Use the second intermission, around 10:45 PM local time, to hit up Tinder. Swipe right and message. By the end of the game, you should have a lucky someone lined up for drinks and whatever else it is that you Tinder people do.
The Caps play the Oilers tonight. The Oilers have won the draft lottery 5,792 times in the past few seasons and have a lot of high-end forward talent stockpiled. In DC, we needed that to happen only once to become a legitimate NHL team.
Puck drop at 9. Fire up CSN, charge your cell phone, and get ready to swipe right for a Caps victory.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 5-1-0 | 55.2% | 103.6 | 27.8% | 83.3% |
| Edmonton Oilers | 3-4-0 | 46.4% | 99.3 | 17.4% | 92.0% |
Projected Lineup
No pregame skate, but likely the same lineup except Grubauer will be in net.
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Oshie
Johansson – Backstrom – Williams
Chimera – Beagle – Wilson
Laich – Stephenson – Burakovsky
Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Schmidt – Orlov
Grubauer
International You Day
Congrats, this is your day. You do you.
Storylines
- Trotz said earlier this week that Philipp Grubauer will get his first start of the season tonight. Get out there and up that trade value, sir. It’d be nice to deal you for some assets over the next season or two.
- Barry Trotz believes in Evgeny Kuznetsov.
- Holla if you have a good penalty kill.
- Ya boy Ben Lutz has five observations on the team so far.
- The Canucks have some interesting fans.
- Speaking of which, can we talk about the fact that the Vancouver fans did the wave? At a hockey game. In the third period. Of a tied game.
- Ovechkin had a sweet goal on Thursday that you may have slept through.
- Programming note: The snapshot will return this weekend!
SPEAKING OF THE WEEKEND!!!
What are your plans? Are you going to Tinder during the game? If RMNB had a Tinder, would you swipe left or right?
Remember to swipe right for a Caps victory tonight.
